Rootless Europe now also demolishes churches

Reporting of F.F.
The bulldozer goes into action, it moves inexorably and hits the wall of the world with the hardness of steel church of St Lambert, small Catholic temple in the town of Immerath in North Rhine-Westphalia.In two days, the church was transformed into a pile of rubble. In its place nothing but an empty space, which will be used to expand the nearby Garzweiler coal mine. Some say it will be used for a new depot, others to widen the access routes. And this is the reason for the demolition, already decided by 2013, when the federal court decided that the reasons of the local population, of ecologists and those who fought to keep an old church standing (deconsecrated but in the hearts of the local faithful), were less important than the public interest in increasing the extraction capacity of that coal mine. Today, that church built by the local Catholic community in 1893 it no longer exists.
And with it, it must be said, a little piece of Europe is also leaving which is slowly becoming part of giving in to the impetus of modernity, of production, of the frenetic pace of the market. A Europe that prefers to expand a coal deposit rather than maintain a structure that, after more than a century, it remained there, to remember that a religious tradition, but first and foremost cultural, existed and should continue to exist.

Unfortunately this is not the first case of old churches deconsecrated and demolished due to the laws of the market. And in this, it is the Church, the one with a capital “c”., to be in some way complicit. If you make temples places subject to the coldest laws of the market, it is clear that it is a small village church, less and less frequented and with few priests available, it becomes a cost and not a resource. But a temple can, of any faith, as well as a civil monument, become a market object and transform into a mere question of convenience? To this question, Unfortunately, Europe is already responding positively. France is unfortunately at the forefront in this. Despite the presence of Christianity for about 1500 years, many churches, especially the smaller and more peripheral ones, they are left to neglect and abandonment. Read More

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Vatican, anonymous letter on the IOR: "Complotto contro Bergoglio"

An anonymous letter has arrived in the Vatican. The content would concern the IOR. For some Vatican circles a “conspiracy against Bergoglio”
A letter anonymously was sent by email to seventeen employees of the Governorate of Vatican and two dioceses of the city of Rome.
Of Giuseppe Aloisi

He wrote in this regard Massimo Franco sul Corriere della Sera that the letter “…it is intended to be an indictment against the director of the IOR, Gianfranco Mammì. And yet that:”The shape, reports those who have had the opportunity to read the letter, it would be that of a "confession" in which the bank manager would apologize for a series of episodes, some public and some very private, occurred during his career: many of which concern his activity at the Institute for Works of Religion”. Mammi, in the meantime, he would have denied the existence of any link between himself and the anonymous letter. The matter, Therefore, it may be more complicated than expected. Lo Ior, moreover, was recently affected by due departures. The deputy general director Mattietti, who had been appointed at the same time as Mammì, was removed due to “administrative violations”, reasons that were not further specified. Il 17 June of 2017, Then, the general supervisor Libero Milone had resigned. The cause? According to Milone they would have happened “threats of arrest”.
The author of the letter, but, it has not yet been traced nor is the computer from which the text in question originated known. The shadow of the hypothesis of a conspiracy against Bergoglio, Therefore, it expands on this whole story: “Francesco's collaborators – Massimo Franco also wrote in the cited article – they claim that it is a’ operation aimed at discrediting his papacy; and to show it chaotic and polluted by poisons and internal feuds as in the last phase of that of Benedict XVI, who resigned, exasperated, in February of 2013. And again:”The problem is that confusion is hard to ignore. In a year, the financial leaders who had been entrusted with the reforms were beheaded. Il 19 June of 2017 the general supervisor Libero Milone resigned, who had been personally chosen by Jorge Mario Bergoglio two years earlier to clean up the Vatican accounts; and three months later Milo revealed that his resignation had not been consensual, but provoked by threats of arrest. And in the space of’ Mattietti missed last month and now he's moving “corvo” to hit Mammì, who would have had serious conflicts with his deputy due to a management defined as too "personalistic" of the IOR”. An eminence of “long course”, Then, he would argue that at the basis of everything there is a plan implemented by certain American circles. The Pope would end up being “pay attention” from these dark powers because of his stance towards the capitalist economic model. Conspiracy or not, Vatican finances continue to remain central in journalistic reports: il C9, the mini-directory of cardinals established by Pope Francis to reform the Roman Curia, was accused that he has not yet reformed what he promised. George Pell, Instead, the prefect of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, He is currently in Australia where he has to defend himself against accusations of child abuse and those of having covered up other cases of this type. The confusion, in any case, seems far from unprovable.

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Europe: perspectives in 2018, three possibilities for change

Artemis' outlook for EuropeReport Wall Street italia
Of Paul Casson (Artemis)
In the 2017 a began to appear fundamental change globally. Growth has accelerated in all regions of the global economy. Signs of inflation ineurozone were such as to induce the ECB to consider the possibility of gradually reducing its purchases of securities.
In many cases, however, it appeared that investors had passed a good part of the time 2017 to remain anchored to deflationary fears of the past rather than taking note of the new economic reality. Indeed, there have been long periods where the value of expensive stocks with slower growth (ma less sensitive to the economic cycle) earnings rose more than that of stocks with cheap prices but faster earnings growth.
When i interest rates they went down, buying secular growth or bond-like stocks worked, thanks precisely to low interest rates and a low inflation rate. Such stocks typically do not perform well when interest rates instead rise. So, if he 2017 it was the year in which economic conditions began to change, it is possible that the 2018 is the year in which investors in Europe begin to adapt to new macroeconomic reality? And what others changescould have in store the 2018? Read More

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Those who say 'unemployment has returned to '77 levels'

Of Maurizio Blondet

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Alberto Bagnai the Century of Italy, but also the SEL website (find the differences), but also the Sardinian Union, but also the AGI, but also Milano Finanza, but also many others, they released a few days ago…

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Censorship in communist China is increasingly heavy


Reporting of Roman correspondence
Heavy in 2017 the censorship exercised by the supervisory authorities in China, even more than in the past: 128thousands of sites blocked because they were considered «dangerous», others were fined, 30.900.000 confiscated publications and books, 1.900 were the people arrested. To communicate it, it was the state agency Xinhua. To fall under the ax of the regime, it is enough to spread unauthorized news or more or less veiled criticism of the communist party. Xi Jinping's coming to power, five years ago, it made the situation worse. Read More

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“Deep sedation”: disguised form of assisted suicide?


of the Prof. Roberto de Mattei

Marina Ripa di Meana, the provocative exponent of the Italian jet set who died in Rome on 6 January 2018, he chose deep palliative sedation to die, expressing his last wishes in a video testament: «After Christmas my health conditions took a nosedive. The breath, the word, eating, get up: All, at this point, it's difficult for me, It causes me unbearable pain: the tumor has now taken over my body. But not of my mind, of my conscience. I called Maria Antonietta Farina Coscioni, person I trust and respect for his personal story, to tell her that the moment of the end has truly come. I asked her to talk to her, she came. I expressed to her the idea of ​​assisted suicide in Switzerland. She told me that I could follow the Italian path of palliative care with deep sedation. I who have traveled with my mind and body all my life, I didn't know, I didn't know this way. I want to send this message to say that even at home, or in hospital, with a tumor, a person must know that he can choose to return to the land without further and unnecessary suffering. Let it be known. Let it be known».

The choice of deep sedation was therefore suggested to Marina Ripa di Meana and Maria Antonietta Coscioni, a left-wing parliamentarian, founder of the Luca Coscioni Institute, who has been fighting for years foreuthanasia and the assisted suicide. Between the two forms of end of life, Coscioni herself stated, in an interview with the Republic, exists "a precise discriminant». In deep sedation «you do not administer a drug that leads to death in a specific time, which in assisted suicide can be timed. The deep sedation time, Instead, It depends on the patient's condition, who spends his last hours in a deep sleep». Read More

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The migrant befana discriminates against Italians

Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team

Italians are increasingly despised, exploited and made subjects of foreign powers (with the complicity of our political class)
Of Antonio Socci

Now Italians are coming from all sides. Even the innocent Befana was made to discriminate against poor Italians. E’ happened yesterday in Naples where the bishop […] Crescenzio Sepe, by joining an MCL initiative, delivered gifts to 500 immigrant children of the various ethnic groups present in Naples for – precisely – the Befana of migrants.
And the Italians? Excluded. In Naples there are no poor Italian families whose children deserve those gifts? Strange, because Istat data tells us the opposite: our absolute poor in Italy, dal 2006 al 2016, they passed by 2,3 million a 4,7 millions. And i “relative poor” I'm more than 8 millions. But evidently them – being Italian – they don't deserve attention.
The Neapolitan one is only the latest episode of a trend towards the penalization or even discrimination of Italians, That […] has reached tragicomic levels.
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Fairy tales and the fear of not being loved

Reporting of BastaBugie editorial team
Fairy tales are where we keep monsters (ad es.: resentment because others seem to be loved more than us)
Of Silvana De Mari

Fairy tales arise by themselves, no one knows where, choral and anonymous; they evolve bit by bit, they travel through centuries and across places, undergoing all possible modifications, but always remaining the same. Fairy tales have fantastic and magical protagonists and must not exceed the space of an afternoon spent by the fire and, above all, that of one evening, because their main job is to fill the “before going to bed”, so that the child can drift off to sleep lulled by the adult's voice, without the monsters that live inside the darkness being able to disturb him. Monsters are the fear of not being loved, the resentment of not being loved, jealousy because others are or seem to be loved more than us. Fairy tales are where we keep monsters. As Kafka intuits, fairy tales are the gold and silver boxes where we keep monsters.
The monsters are unspeakable. Negative emotions are not always allowed for children, especially to those who would have the most reason to have it: therefore it is appropriate to hide them inside a fairy tale and try them out through a third party, identifying with the main character. Read More

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Other than free and equal: Grasso is already at the corner. And D'Alema and Bersani make the lists

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Report Linkiesta

The Democratic Party attacks him, and it's no surprise. But the president of the Senate also has to face the intolerance of his allies. Some say he doesn't have a very TV profile, others accuse him of the appointment of Rossella Muroni. Behind the controversies lie clashes over the electoral lists

Opponents' attacks, the unknowns of a difficult political bet, now even the intolerance of the allies. Who knows if Pietro Grasso expected all these difficulties. As a magistrate he was a national anti-mafia prosecutor, as president of the Senate he led one of the most stormy legislatures in republican history. Maybe he thought he had really seen it all. But since he took the field the leader of Liberi e Uguali has encountered one obstacle after another. To the controversies with the Democratic Party, largely predictable, now adds the growing impatience of his people. Meanwhile, the electoral campaign is already in full swing. How else to define the unpleasant exchange of accusations – delivered via letter to the pages of Republic – with the dem treasurer Francesco Bonifazi? Accused of not having paid 83.250 euros to the coffers of the party that got him elected to Parliament, the former magistrate was forced to make an annoying justification. An unpleasant story, at best, which has been exposing him to criticism and malice for days. At least Matteo Renzi was more direct. In Monday evening's interview with Half past eight the PD secretary anticipated what will be the leitmotif of the coming months. To parade votes in LeU, the center-left intends to obsessively appeal for a useful vote. «Every vote that goes to Free and Equal – Renzi's words – it's not that it gives Boldrini the seat, goes to Salvini". More or less shareable message, but destined to hit the mark. It is easy to think that in the long run the Nazarene's strategy could significantly erode the consensus gained by Grasso.

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Der Spiegel also criticizes Fico and uses Coop Connection…

Written and reported by Antonio Amorosi
After The Guardian, Der Spiegel also criticizes Fico
And he cites the book Coop connection to describe that world.
The main European magazine takes a picture from the stars of politics to the rags of Fico. Everyone lined up to celebrate the "man with the moustache" who confuses "Goebbels with Goethe" and wants to sell Italy with Mickey Mouse's princes. READ AND SPREAD WORD OF MOUTH


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De Benedetti on the phone: «Renzi told me that the popular decree will pass»


The Engineer invested in the stock market 5 million euros before the government's decision

Of Fiorenza Sarzanini
ROMA Four days before the government decree on Popolari launched on 20 January 2015, Matteo Renzi would have reassured the entrepreneur Carlo De Benedetti that the measure would pass. It is the Engineer himself who tells it to the professional who took care of his investments in the stock market. The recording of the phone call - which has remained secret until now - is attached to the file that the Rome Prosecutor's Office sent to the Parliamentary Banking Commission. And it seems to deny the version provided by both when they had excluded the disclosure of confidential information. The investigation for insider trading was started three years ago following a report from Consob which had highlighted capital gains and anomalous movements on securities. In particular, De Benedetti had invested 5 million euros with Romed spa earning 600 thousand euros. The magistrates asked for the investigation to be closed because both Renzi and De Benedetti, questioned by prosecutors, they excluded having entered into the merits of the text then approved at Palazzo Chigi. But now - while waiting for the judge to decide whether to accept the prosecutors' request - the Commission will express its opinion in the final report.
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Banks: Gasparri, De Benedetti knew

 © ANSAThe newspapers he edits when they publish the wiretaps?

(ANSA) – ROMA, 10 GEN – “Carlo De Benedetti, as we read today in numerous newspapers, he clearly said that he had learned from Renzi of the imminent launch of a decree on cooperative banks.
Got this news, he told his trusted men, always according to newspaper reading, to proceed with certain investments. These financial choices earned De Benedetti a profit of 600 thousand euros, but the investigation was later closed by the judiciary”. CONTINUE ON: http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2018/01/10/banche-gasparri-de-benedetti-sapeva_b021888a-c056-4c0f-a95d-e9bf529df659.html Read More

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In the West Bank an unbalanced justice system

Reporting of Federici Studies Center

The case of Ahed Tamimi, a sixteen year old Palestinian girl tried for beating an Israeli soldier. For the same crimes, Israelis and Palestinians suffer different punishments.
On January 1st the Israeli military court of Ofer, West Bank, filed twelve different charges against Ahed Tamimi. Sixteen years old, resident in Nabi Saleh village, known for the long popular resistance against the wall and the expansion of Jewish settlements, Ahed is known to everyone who has spent any time in the Occupied Territories: since she was a child she has occupied the front rows of Friday protest marches, together with the women and children of Nabi Saleh, in his hand a camera or a red card to show to the Israeli soldiers.

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In the North East, the perception of the presence of the mafia is still low

Reporting of Prof. Enzo Guidotto

Carried out on behalf of Il Gazzettino, which also hosts its weekly publication, notes the political and cultural attitudes of Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the province of Trento.
NORTH EAST, IL 69% HE DOESN'T BELIEVE THAT THE MAFIA ALSO LIVES HERE
Of Natasha Porcellato
«Here the mafia is certainly not that of the collective imagination, with the cap and the lupara. And it is no longer just the one that manages drug trafficking and dealing. We are in a phase where the mafiosi see this region, with its industries and economic activities, as a place to invest dirty money, recycling it, in order to obtain capital “clean”. Like a big washing machine, precisely". These are the words of the chief prosecutor Bruno Cherchi, for a year at the helm of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate of Venice, he used a few weeks ago during an interview to describe the presence of the mafia in Veneto, but probably a completely similar discussion could also be made for Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the province of Trento.
How much Northern public opinion notices the presence of this “large washing machine” close to you? According to data collected by Demos per The Gazzettino, il 28% of those interviewed believe the mafia is very or somewhat present in their area of ​​residence, while it is the 69% to consider it little or not present at all. Looking at the historical series of’Observatory on the North East, we can observe how the percentage of those who admit the existence of the mafia in these lands has increased over time. In the 2010, Indeed, it was the 19% judging that mafia activity is very or fairly present. The percentage then rose to 22% In the 2013 and had stabilized in 2016 (21%). With the values ​​recorded in the latest survey, but, the leap is significant: +7 percentage points compared to a year ago. Which socio-professional sectors are most aware of the mafia presence in their areas of residence? Unemployed (45%) and entrepreneurs (39%), as well as atypical workers (36%) and workers (32%), they seem to be the categories that most perceive the presence of organized crime around them.
We detect, but, how it is always a minority who express this type of sensation, while the majority of those interviewed remain convinced that the mafia is little or not present at all in the North East. Even if between 2010 and today the percentage of skeptics has decreased by 9 percentage points, they almost remain in these positions 7 interviewed on 10. This orientation, Furthermore, it tends to spread even more among students (89%) and freelancers (81%), technicians and employees (76%).
How the presence of organized crime has changed over the last few years 10 years? The idea that it has increased concerns the 27% of the interviewees, while the 38% believes it has remained stable. One in ten northeasterners, Then, think mafia activity, camorra and n'drangheta has decreased over the last decade and the 16% claims that the mafias, in the North East, there are not and never have been. Pretty consistent (9%), In the end, the percentage of interviewees who are reluctant to answer the question, symptom of how much this topic is, still today, particularly difficult for public opinion.
INFORMATIVE NOTE
The North East Observatory is managed by Demos & More for Il Gazzettino. The survey was conducted over the days 13-20 November 2017 and the interviews were carried out with the CATI technique, CAMI and CAWI from Demetra. The champion, Of 1086 people (waste/replacements: 5927), is statistically representative of the population with 15 years and older resident in Veneto, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia and in the Province of Trento, by geographical area, gender and age groups (maximum margin of error 2.97% with CAWI) and was weighted based on socio-demographic variables. Data up to 2007 they refer only to Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The data is rounded to the nearest whole number and this may lead to a total that is different from 100.
Natasha Porcellato, with the collaboration of Ludovico Gardani, took care of the methodological part, organizational and data analysis. Marco Fornea supervised the CATI-CAMI-CAWI investigation.
The North East Observatory is directed by Ilvo Diamanti.
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